Non-refillable bottle.



PATBNTBD PEB. 27, 1906.

VJ. M. KLDUPP.

NoN-REFILLABLB BOTTLE.

APPLIOA'LAIOBI` FILED MAY 1D. 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1806.

Application filed My 10, 1905. Serial No. 259,821.

To atl whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. KILDUFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Non-Refillable Botties and Such Like, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to adapt bottles and such like so as to prevent their being refilled after having once been emptied of their contents. Under this invention, in substance, the neck of the bottle, preferably at or near its junction with the body of the bottle and interiori has a seat for a valve, and in the neck is lbeated a valve having a central stem leading upward from it to seat on said Valve-seat and seated to close the saine to the passage of liquid, &c., from the neck into the body of the bottle and off of its seat to allow the contents of the bottle to ass into the neck of the bottle and thererom to be discharged, in combination with a cage which at one portion of its length is fixed within and to the inner surface of the neck of the bottle and is open at its then inner and closed at its then outer end, and which above or beyond its said xed portion has an open space surrounding and between it and the neck of the bottle, with ports making communication between said open space and the interior of the cage, and which also has within it and op osite to said ports a iiXed open-ended tube that has an open space between it and the cage and is located so as to receive the upper end portion of said valve-stein, and all otherwise substantially and to operate as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specliication, Figure l is a central vertical section of the neck and a side view of the body of a bottle and having the neck adapted and provided in accordance with this invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are horizontal cross-sections on lines 2 2 and 3 3, respectively, of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A is the bod ,and B is the neck, of a bottle, which may e of an desired form, size, and design. The neck interiorly, and preferably at or near its junction with the body A, is adapted, as at C, for the seating of a valve I), that, preferably, is

of a plug and conical shape and has a central stein D2 extending upwardiy into the neck of the bottle.

E is a cage fixed at one and its inner end portion E2 by cement or otherwise suitably within and to the inner surface oi the neck of the bottle and above and beyond the valveseat and its valve as seated thereon. This cage at its inner end E3 is open and at its outer end E4 it is closed, and beyond its said fixed portion E2 and between the cage and the inner surface of the neck of the bottle there is an open space a entirely about the cage, and this space is in open communication with the neck of the bottle beyond the closed end Ei of the cage, and also by and through ports l) in the side of the cage it is in open coninuinication with the interior of the cage.

F is a tube open at both ends. This tube F is fixed within and opposite the ports b of the cage E, and at both of its open ends it is in communication with the interior of the cage and with the open space j entirely surrounding and between the tube and the inner surface of the cage. The upper and free end portion of the valve-stern with the valve seated or closed projects into this open-ended tube, and there is an open space g entirely around this projecting'portion of the valvestein.

From the above description it is plain that the contents of the bottle can be emptied and discharged at the open end of the neck by properly upsetting the bottle, because the va-ive will rise or move from its seat sufficiently therefor, and that the bottle cannot be refilled because the valve being closed on its seat will Vrevent it.

All of t e parts herein described are preferably made of glass; but they may be made of any other material which is suitable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is;

In a non-refllable bottle, or such like, the combination with the neck provided with a valve-seat, and a vaive, having a stein, operating upon said seat, of a cage secured at its inner portion within and to the neck and open at its inner and closed at its outer end, and having an open space about its unsecured portion and there provided with ports hand in the presence of two subscribing Wit leadlng therefrom to the inside of the cage, nesses. and an inner tube open at both of its ends and secured to the cage opposite to seid ports JGHN M KUJDUB B with an open space about it and between its 'Yitnesses: open outer end and the closed end of the cage. ALBERT W. BROWN,

In witness whereof' I have hereunto set my ALICE M. MGCARTIIY. 

